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Old 03-14-2017, 05:05 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb View Post
"If I had known, I would have done it differently." is perfectly correct, as far as I know. "If I would have known" sounds more awkward to me, as a USA English speaker. We prefer the version you didn't like it! UK people, is this a difference in styles? OP is from Germany, so he may have learned a more formal UK version of English?
Cough. Read the post more carefully, especially the two words "instead of".
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